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As people across the country prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, a Doris Day quote comes to mind: “Gratitude is riches and complaint is poverty.” The American actress and singer was right, and this week especially, each of us should take a moment to consider the unique history of this quintessential American holiday, what science says about…
Equality always has been an American preoccupation, right from the words “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence. Yet even that phrase is not egalitarian enough by today’s lights; feminists long have objected to the gendered language of “all men.” Thomas Jefferson didn’t mean to commit a microaggression; in 1776, “all men”…
There’s a popular meme that originates with an episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants” in which a previously beaten-up individual once again is surrounded by angry townsfolk. As they close in, one attacker shakes his fist and shouts, “How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?” Target Corp., the popular American department…
In many ways, it was a decision that launched a thousand boycotts. If people wanted to trace the surge of consumer activism back to its root, Georgia was probably the straw that broke the woke camel’s back. When Major League Baseball decided to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta over a 2021 law to…
There’s a price to be paid for bad policies divorced from human nature. The Associated Press reported Sunday that Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law to decriminalize hard drugs is finally facing serious backlash. This may come as a surprise, but according to AP, the state has seen an “explosion of public drug use fueled by the proliferation…
The 2024 primary season is already in full swing, but it’s not too late for states to improve the security and integrity of their election process to the benefit of all voters, no matter their political preferences. The American public wants and deserves an election system in which the candidates who get the most legitimate…
The Lancet, one of the world's oldest and most influential medical journals, agreed to publish an open letter signed by more than 3,000 physicians and demanding actions that would undermine Israel's ability to protect itself from another Oct. 7-style terrorist attack. The letter also framed Israel's response to the massacre of its citizens as an…
The Biden administration has been known to stretch the law beyond a plain reading to support a desired policy outcome. Take the longstanding federal law that criminalizes the shipment of abortion drugs, for example. The Justice Department argues that the law doesn’t mean what it says. Wrong. Or how about Title IX of the Education…
“By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Within the first few pages of the Bible, Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden. The man and…
The federal Department of Education spends $75 million annually on foreign language and culture educational programs in the United States, but much of that funds academic centers that side with America’s antagonists and enemies. Just look at funding to study the Middle East. Beginning Oct. 20, university Middle Eastern studies centers have co-organized a weekly…
Are you planning to talk politics at Thanksgiving dinner this year? Depending on your family’s dynamics, it can be fraught with danger. But filmmaker Rob Feld, director of a new documentary called “Jesters and Fools,” says there’s a way to navigate such conversations without resorting to creating acrimony. “I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving…
Americans are finally catching on that the oppressor-oppressed narrative being taught in our schools and universities is not a conspiracy theory disseminated by conservatives. It’s real. Jewish students having to barricade themselves in a college to escape a mob in Manhattan, of all places, has opened people’s eyes to the threat woke ideology represents to civilization. Too…
The Census Bureau is asking Congress for $10 million to figure out how best to promote the fiction that sex is assigned at birth, rather than the scientific fact that it is present at conception. It is part of a new set of questions on sexual orientation and gender identity that the bureau wants to ask residents, even as…
Americans have experienced appliance inflation over the past few years, and it could be about to get worse as the Biden administration continues its onslaught of appliance regulations. While blaming Washington bureaucrats is always a reasonable response, in this case, any problems that they are causing is a result of them exercising the authority granted…
Bari Weiss, the former New York Times editorial writer, delivered a tour de force speech explaining the West’s current war of ideas and laying out what we must do to save our civilization. Speaking at The Federalist Society’s annual National Lawyers Convention, Weiss spoke after receiving a prize named after Barbara K. Olsen, a victim…
Exit polls in Ohio clearly showed that most voters oppose unlimited abortion on demand, yet that’s what 57% of the Ohioans voted for with the passage of Issue 1 on Nov. 7. Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights and its allies persuaded a lot of people who believe in limits on induced abortion to vote in…
A couple of years ago, former Vice President Mike Pence says a good friend of his said he was curious how Pence managed to have a wonderful family while also maintaining a demanding political career. That conversation became the genesis for Pence’s new book, “Go Home for Dinner: Advice on How Faith Makes a Family…
The latest mRNA COVID-19 boosters have been authorized since late August 2023. Nine weeks later, where are all the photos of politicians and celebrities getting vaccinated to encourage the general public to get their shots? Despite eschewing much of social media, television, and trendy media stories, I still couldn’t avoid major mainstream news reports in…
Target’s second quarter earnings report proved the retail giant still hasn’t rebounded from its “Pride” fallout over the summer, showing a 5.4% decrease in sales—the first drop in roughly six years. The company’s third quarter report was no better, revealing an additional 4.9% drop. Thanks to Target’s partnership with a satanist designer and its highly controversial “Pride” line—which pushed transgender extremism on…
When President Barack Obama named retiring Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Ill., to serve as his administration’s secretary of transportation, LaHood brought with him a vision for changing the way Americans moved from one place to another. It would start with empowering the government to monitor how many miles Americans drove. “We should look at the vehicular…